NY State Senate Bill 2025-S6373

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 12, 2025	referred to transportation

2025-S6373 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1229-e, V & T L

2025-S6373 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all vehicles that are capable of traveling over twenty-five miles per hour to be registered and licensed with the department of motor vehicles.

2025-S6373 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6373

SPONSOR: CHAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
the registration and licensing of vehicles that have the ability to
travel over twenty-five miles per hour

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill establishes the legislative intent of this bill by
outlining that unregistered and unlicensed vehicles pose an inherent
threat to public safety,

Section 2 amends the vehicle and traffic law by adding a new section
requiring the licensing and registration of vehicles capable of travel
over twenty-five miles per hour.

Section 3 provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Over the last five years New York State, with emphasis on the City of
New York, has seen an increase in the use of motorized scooters, elec-
tric powered bicycles (e-bikes), limited use motorcycles, and other such
vehicles capable of traveling at speeds of twenty-five, miles or more
many of these vehicles remain unlicensed and unregistered and pose a
major threat to pedestrians, cyclists, and their fellow motorists. The
legalization of electric powered bikes (e-bikes) in 2020 in New York
City coupled with the continued development of bike lanes across the
City and State of New York have resulted in a boom of traffic accidents
and a lack of enforcement of traffic safety laws due to a continued
difficulty of identifying violators who misuse bike lanes, ignore posted
signage, or damage property other vehicles. By requiring the licensing
and registration of any vehicle capable of traveling at speeds of more
than twenty-five miles per hour, we bring accountability to our streets
and help to combat a growing safety crisis plaguing our State.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024, A.7342, not considered

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S6373 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6373
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CHAN  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   the  registration  and  licensing of vehicles that have the ability to
   travel over twenty-five miles per hour

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that unregistered
 and  unlicensed  vehicles  can pose a threat to public safety and may be
 used for criminal activity. It is necessary to regulate the operation of
 vehicles on public roads and highways in order to ensure  public  safety
 and  maintain  the integrity of the transportation system. Vehicles that
 can travel over twenty-five miles per hour  are  capable  of  high-speed
 operation and may require special handling and safety considerations.
   §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
 1229-e to read as follows:
   § 1229-E. REGISTRATION AND LICENSING  OF  VEHICLES  THAT  TRAVEL  OVER
 TWENTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR.  1. ALL VEHICLES THAT ARE CAPABLE OF TRAVEL-
 ING  OVER  TWENTY-FIVE  MILES  PER  HOUR SHALL BE REGISTERED PURSUANT TO
 TITLE FOUR OR ELEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER AND ISSUED A PLATE  NUMBER  BY  THE
 DEPARTMENT.    NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE A VEHICLE UNLESS SUCH VEHICLE HAS
 BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND HAS A NUMBER PLATE ISSUED BY THE
 COMMISSIONER WITH A NUMBER CORRESPONDING TO THAT OF THE  CERTIFICATE  OF
 REGISTRATION.
   2.  SUCH  NUMBER  PLATES  SHALL  BE OF SUCH MATERIAL, FORM, DESIGN AND
 DIMENSIONS AND CONTAIN OR SET FORTH SUCH DISTINGUISHING NUMBER OR  OTHER
 IDENTIFICATION  MARKS  AS  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL PRESCRIBE, PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT THERE SHALL BE AT ALL TIMES A MARKED CONTRAST BETWEEN  THE
 COLOR OF THE NUMBER PLATES AND THAT OF THE NUMERALS OR LETTERS THEREON.
   3. EACH SUCH NUMBER PLATE SHALL BE CONSPICUOUSLY DISPLAYED AND SECURE-
 LY FASTENED ON THE VEHICLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08970-02-5

 S. 6373                             2
 
   4.  THE  FEE FOR SUCH REGISTRATION AND NUMBER PLATES SHALL BE THE SAME
 AS SET FORTH IN SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   5.  ANY  INDIVIDUAL  WHO OPERATES A VEHICLE THAT IS NOT REGISTERED AND
 LICENSED AS REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO  PENALTIES  AND
 FINES  SET  FORTH IN SUBDIVISION EIGHTEEN OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF
 THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect one hundred days after it  shall  have
 become  a  law and shall apply to all vehicles operating on public roads
 and highways within the jurisdiction of the state of New York.

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

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2025-S6373 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6373 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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